CHILD RIGHTS RESEARCH TOOLS

UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti has developed and published the International Children's Rights Thesaurus and the Children's Rights Glossary, to strengthen access to effective information on the rights of children and to contribute to the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most ratified international treaty in the world.

The CRC thesaurus organizes, classifies and cross-references children's rights, according to the specialized terminology used in the Convention of the Rights of the Child and carefully defined in the CRC Glossary. The e-versions of the Thesaurus and of the Glossary are integrated, both allow to skip from one tool to another to define concepts, as well as to search IRC site using that terminology.

In addition, the full texts of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as of the two Optional Protocols and soon of the General Comments, have been parsed using the Glossary terms, with the result of linking each key term in those international instruments with the appropriate Glossary definition.

We hope that these tools will contribute to facilitate closer communication and collaboration among researchers, jurists and academicians, as well as wider dissemination and better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child for the fulfilment of their rights globally.